Burgundy: A Cruise Along le Canal de Bourgogne

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Overview
Highlights
- Cruise on a floating boutique along a peaceful, vineyard-fringed canal
- Get a taste of Burgundy's wine-making heritage at Chateau du Clos de Vougeot
- Discover the citadel of Besancon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Trip includes
- 6 nights on board MS Jeanine, a boutiquehotel barge
- Experience Back-Roads our leader
- Local captain and crew
- Luxury mini-coach transportation
- Local guide in Dijon
- European breakfast daily Breakfast
- Six evening meals Dinner
- Five lunches
- Selected drinks during the cruise
- Selected local taxes
- Entrance fee included to: Chateau de Clos de Vougeot, Citadel of Besancon and Palace of Fontainebleau
Itinerary

Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Jeanine (or similar)
Arriving from Paris, we greet Dijon with a city-wide walking tour, taking its Renaissance and medieval wonders in our stride. After we’ve stretched our legs, we step on to our private barge, with the crew...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jeanine (or similar)
Back on dry land, this morning we enjoy a leisurely drive through a rural idyll, where row upon row of vines, punctuatedby honey-stone villages, will have us thinking we’ve slipped in...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jeanine (or similar)
Swallows and Amazons. Wind in the Willows. Whatever your favourite waterside tale, it’ll come alive today with a whole day spent gently cruising along the canal. Simply sit back in lu...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jeanine (or similar)
Waking on the water, we leave our barge moored alongside the riverboats lining the banks of Saint-Jean-de-Losne to saunter around its pretty streets. We soon discover its boating heri...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jeanine (or similar)
Before setting sail once more, we take some time to explore Dole. The old town is heritagerich, topped off by the medieval and gothic medley that is the Collegiale-Notre-Dame. Its arc...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jeanine (or similar)
We’ve breakfast, lunch and dinner on board again today. There’s a leisurely morning in store first as we cruise further along the Canal de Bourgogne. After lunch, we depart for Besanç...
Meals: Breakfast
After a hearty breakfast leaves us shipshape, we bid farewell to MS Jeanine and look forward to our last treat. And it’s a real cherry-on-the-cake trip. On the road to Paris, we stop at Fontainebleau – the palace of palaces. A masterpiece of gi...
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The total tour cost includes the tour price (regular or promotional) and the compulsory local payment. The promotional price is subject to change. Check directly with the operator for the latest price offer. The tour operator requires you to pay only the tour price to purchase your travel. The compulsory local payment will be paid when you join the trip. All prices are based on double, twin or triple share occupancy. Solo passengers will be accommodated in a double, twin or triple room according to availability with a passenger(s) of the same gender. Single supplement only needs to be paid if the passenger does not want to share and requests their own room. Discounts can only be applied at the time of booking and cannot be added at a later date, regardless of any changes made to the original booking.
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Logistics
What's excluded
- Unless otherwise specified in the listed inclusions, airfares are not included in the tour price.
- Driver/tour leader gratuity is at your discretion.
- Lunches (unless otherwise stated), social drinks, meals on free nights,’ items of a personal nature and entrance fees when not listed in the schedule of inclusions.
- Occasional optional evening theatre/festival visits and entrances not detailed in the tour inclusions.
- Incidental expenses, such as room service incurred at hotels. All expenses are to be settled prior to leaving the accommodation.
- Laundry costs and any shipping charges for the return of purchases made on tour, or for the return of property lost on tour.
- Pre and post tour accommodation.
- Unless otherwise listed in the inclusions, transfers are not included in the tour price.
Accommodation
Cancellation of a booking by you must be made in writing and sent to Back-Roads Touring, Level 1, 107 Power Road, Chiswick, London, W45PY, UK; either by you or your travel agent; an oral message is insufficient. This avoids any misunderstanding. We will not treat a booking as cancelled until written notice is received by us (fax or email is acceptable). If the cancellation is received 42 days or more before departure, only the deposit is forfeited and any other payments made upfront will be refunded.
10. If the cancellation is within 42 days of the departure date, the following charges will apply:
Days before departure % holiday costs forfeited
Over 42 days Deposit
42-29 days 50%
28-0 days 100%
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